I have spent the last couple of days at the EESAT 2005 Conference in San Francisco, hosted by the Electrical Storage Association with Sandia Labs and the DOE. The forum was focused mainly on large scale storages schemes. It was a long running well run forum, done every two years, 150+ attendance. Frankly, about the […]
Is the Bush Administration continuing to weaken our environmental regulations? By and large the US has been getting cleaner and more environmentally friendly on a per unit basis for the past 30 years. This is a good thing, though we still have a long way to go. I think that the future of power in […]
Toyota today announced it was recalling and repairing 75,000 Prius cars due to engine stalling. I think that is on the order of half of their total fleet. It doesn’t sound like a big fix is required, but certainly a massive PR setback for the most popular hybrid our there. I’ve personally been waiting for […]
Small cap cleantech IPOs have been especially hot lately, and definitely global. The big cleantech news seems like that the whole world is getting in on the IPO game. It’s not just in the US, the equity markets in Australia, on the ASX, and the London AIM exchange have lots of activity. The other striking […]
Oil prices are made up of components, supply and demand. The market tends to forecast near term supply for oil reasonably well. There is a lot of data out there, and a lot of smart people crunching it. The big bugaboo in predicting oil prices, however, is forecasting short term demand. The main variables in […]
I just wanted to put a plug in for the Cleantech Forum in Melbourne, Australia in late Novemeber. I am moderating one of the panels on investing. The founder, Jeffrey Castellas, has been looking to make a splash in cleantech for some time. I am excited to see he is doing it in Australia, as […]
The Cleantech Venture Network is now streaming several Cleantech blogs on their site, Cleantech.com. The stream is heavy on the technology investment and venture capital content at the moment, but several good blogs are already streamed there. Check it out. We at Cleantechblog are big fans, and support all the Cleantech Venture Network is doing […]
The AP did an article today about Hugo Chavez’s desire to use its oil supply to tie the rest of South America to Venezuela at the expense of the US. Basically, Chavez is looking to pull other South American countries into a free trade zone centered around Venezuela, and counteract US efforts to create a […]
